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Coordination Costs, Organization Structure and Firm Growth.
Zhou, Yue Maggie - 2008
This dissertation views firms as systems of interdependent activities and investigates the role of coordination costs in setting limits to firms’ growth strategies and organization structure. It contains three interrelated studies. Study I examines the impact of coordination costs on firms’...
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Performance Measurement in Corporate Governance: Do Mergers Improve Managerial Performance in the Post-Merger Period?
Feroz, Ehsan H.; Kim, Sungsoo; Raab, Raymond L. - 2005
"Inspired by the Coase (1937) theory of the firm, we analyze the performance of Healy, Palepu, and Ruback (1992) sample …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468471
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Behavioral decision theory and the negotiation process; effects of agenda and frame
Bontempo, Robert Nathaniel - 1990
Prospect Theory) by fitting utility functions to negotiation behavior observed in a laboratory setting. In addition to … strongly suggest that the Prospect Theory value function provides the best prediction of actual negotiation behavior. Results …
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Speculative bubbles and tests of the contagion mechanism in financial markets.
Porras Gonzalez, Eva Raquel. - Florida Atlantic University
This dissertation extends previous research on bubbles by investigating whether changes in the financial asset prices of the S&P500 reflect changes in fundamentals. We propose that if this is not the case the volatility is due to a bubble. Hence, this is the general hypothesis from which several...
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One Player Games versus Two Player Games: Comparing Agribusiness Cooperatives with Investor-Owned Business Models
Parker, Frederick - 2011
generate dead weight loss whenmaximizing producer surpluses as expected under prevailing microeconomic theory. Theuse of …
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The hierarchical structure of the firm: A geometric perspective
Tang, Kam Ki; Yanes, Leopoldo - 2009
This paper incorporates hierarchical structure into the neoclassical theory of the firm. Firms are hierarchical in two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448301
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Revenue Sharing and Control Rights in Team Production: Theories and Evidence from Joint Ventures.*
Bai, Chong-En; Tao, Zhigang; Wu, Changqi - 2003
Grossman-Hart-Moore Property Rights Theory and the Transaction Cost Theory of the firm, and emphasizes the impact of … control arrangements o?ers strong support to our Property-Rights-Theory motivated model with self investment but rejects that … with cooperative investment. The Transaction-Cost-Theory motivated model leaves some important empirical findings …
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Are Elite Universities Losing Their Competitive Edge?
Kim, E. Han - 2006
We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect...
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The Hierarchical Structure of the Firm: A Geometric Perspective
Yanes, L. J.; Tang, K.K. - 2006
This paper incorporates hierarchical structure into the neoclassical theory of the firm. Firms are hierarchical in two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448598
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Essays on subcontracting, competitive bidding, and dynamic housing demand.
Miller, Daniel Patrick - 2009
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. December 2009. Major: Economics. Advisor: Patrick L. Bajari. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 98 pages, appendices A-B.
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